What a gentle man. Hard to find in the music business.

P.S it is always cool to have such talented drums and double base backing you.🎹🎹🎹👍👍

I have listened to a lot of piano arrangements of this Jack Jones classic. This is by far the best. Very like what Oscar Peterson might do with it. 🎹🎹🎹🎹👍👍

Good job ! Cyrille and Joel with his wonderful sound. ❤

What’s up Garry

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How powerfully evocative of a bright spirit. She lives on in you, Neal. And thank you, with Michael, for the lovely winding sounds.

So sorry my friend.... I remember how it was for both of mine. Sweet tribute.

Beautiful ❤

Beautiful tribute to your mother ,a life well lived

Is this an original?

F’ing BEAUTIFUL!!! A half hour later, and I seriously cannot stop listening to this. I have no intentions of stopping anytime soon, either.

I bet Thelonious is somewhere up there smiling down at you!

Awesome sauce!!!

Oh, my God, this was SO amazing!! Thank you sssooo much for this, Neal - job well done, excellently done. Brilliant idea to have him show his photos & talk about them - What a trip down memory lane. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this Documentary, with much, much love from Debbie Kennedy in Melbourne, Australia x o 💙💜💚

This is one of the great jazz films! awesome!

Frank was one of my favorite teachers at Mercer County Community College… I remember he took a bunch of us up to the Whitney to see his painting in the Biennial!

This pick up is the last word, nothing like it , it gives u the natural sound of your instrument put one on my tenor banjo , amazing , thanks to myers, ❤️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪👍

The Annie Ross gig sounds classic. Great stuff .

Saw Dennis play on a tv program with Mel Torme many years ago and wished I could play something like that . Then in 1999 saw Dennis play with a group called the three baritones ! With Joe Farnsworth on drums and Gary Sumulyn ? Great playing and gig , remember chatting with Dennis at the end of the night . Brilliant man . Think he had this bass as in those days people could fly with their bass

This is a wonderful tribute to my cousin. He calls me out of the blue and we chat for hours Jimmy is a font of knowledge about everything. Thank you for this.

It's an awful shame that bassist Nate Brown was forced to retire because of the pandemic. His career was going so well until the economic instability of pandemic forced many artists into a forced retirement. Nate Brown is a young genius He became a physical therapist trainer

alto sound great

Putin jazz super Cyril Aime si Joel Fram sax fabulos!

Wow Bassist went Deutsche style with the arco. Guitar went to 185th notes without warning.

Drummer is locked to that bass.

I'm so happy to have found this video. Dennis was a friend in the 70's and 80's. He married Denise, a good friend of mine, and spent a lot of time with them in Washington Heights with baby Michael. I made a bow case for him. In an incredibly generous gesture, Dennis gathered a group of his studio friends and played at my own wedding in 1984. I am so sorry I lost touch afterward and learned about his passing only recently. RIP, Dennis. You made me laugh.

What a wonderful film!

Wonderful!!

P r o m o S M

Beautiful portrait of an artist. Fascinating!

Awesome

I enjoyed watching this, as someone who saw Dennis play, and experienced his personal warmth when I was a young player in the city. I also enjoyed it because I have a 1940 King Moretone, a plywood made by the same company as the Am. Standard. Mine is just as hard to play! The action is insane, you can slip your whole hand under the strings. But another reason it sounds the way it does is the 43.5” string length! When you’re used to the standard 41” length… it really kicks your ass! I used it as a studio only bass in Nashville for many years, it has a huge sound, very defined, and punchy… and playing it for even the time it took to cut a track was work, but worth what you got from it. But hats off to you for playing a whole night on it! Truly a feat of strength!

Simply beautiful!!

Great!

This is superb: an elegant tribute to someone we might not know otherwise.

Nice! Love the alto flute!

So o o o o o o o o o o o o o’Good!’ One of my favorite songs to sing,sung,sang!🌹

I still see him playing gigs and carrying his full base into his van driving home. He’s amazing.

Wonderful video (content and production!)

Wow Neal. Love, love ,love this Doc about my cousin Jimmy!! He looks so much like his mother, my Aunt Anne, (I always called her Aunt Annie). Really captures his spirit and I just so enjoyed his stories about Utica, his photos of all the musicians, and how he talks about his 5 beautiful children!!! He is a gem and thank you for it all.

What an ace version-and Boy...does it SWING! OH YESSS! Love it!💚

Looking forward to seeing this. Frank was one of my favorite teachers back at MCCC!

So great to hear this a second time around! thanks for uploading.

Of all the many many solos by Joel on KZbin, this is still my favourite - it just has everything. Unbelievable fast passages, quotes, blues and you just never know where he’s going to go with it (well the first time hearing!). Outstanding.

watching this for the umpteenth time! Thanks for posting Neal

It’s a beautiful thing..

I just bought again records I had back in the early 50s of Bill with Shorty Rogers. I loved them then and I still love them and your playing, Bill.

Yes, just lovely... man man you rock love ya

Lovely Music..... lovely Barry ❤